Ukrainian Catholic Church Australia, New Zealand and Oceania

If all agree to a lie – a new ‘truth’ has suddenly been discovered. Without the questioning of such ‘truths’, individuals, societies, and generations of men and women, can base their lives on illusions, – writes Dr. Andrew Thomas Kania in Church ...

Christianity and the church are under attack. In Australia the recent euthanasia debate and the same sex marriage discussions have all put focus on religion itself. We live in a world of secularism where people are increasingly materialistic, and self-centred. ...

3rd -10th May 2018, Bishop Peter Stasiuk attended the Australian Catholic Bishops’ Conference (ACBC) at Mary McKillop Place in North Sydney. This is the 25th year that Bishop Peter has attended this yearly conference. There are various commissions which the ...

13th May 2018 was “Mothers’ Day” in Australia. The whole country came out to celebrate and thank mothers in many diverse ways. The more important moments were held within individual families. Our Ukrainian Catholic Church chose to thank our mothers ...

Our Ardeer Parish welcomed its new, long awaited parish priest on April 25, 2018. Fr Andriy, his wife, Olesia, children, Andriy Lev, Yeremia and Bohuslava arrived on a late evening flight from Lviv, Ukraine. In a sense it was a ...

Christ began his public ministry with the proclamation: “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God has come near; repent, and believe in the good news” (Mk 1:15). The kingdom of God is personified in Jesus Christ. One becomes ...

Many years ago I can recall sitting in my classroom having just completed teaching for the week. In Perth, during February, summers are hot and trying. During that particular summer the ceiling fans struggled to cycle the oppressive air. The ...

The world we live in has changed a lot in the past 10-15 years. It has been changing from its’ creation, but when it comes to the level of faith, belief, moral life, social behaviour, the last 10-15 years has ...

About 100 bishops from Australia, New Zealand, and the rest of the Pacific met in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, on 11th to 17th April 2018. Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s Secretary of State (second in rank to Pope Francis) ...

Presented at the Assembly of the Federation of Catholic Bishops Conferences of Oceania, Port Moresby, April 15th 2018 by Bishop Vincent Long of Parramatta. INTRODUCTION: Thank you for the opportunity to share with you a few thoughts on the challenges ...

Today we are celebrating and thanking God for a Priestly vocation. God spoke to Zenon Chorkawyj, as young man, and asked him to follow Him, to feed His sheep, to pastor His flock, to bring the good news to those ...